Prof Melissa A Hofmann, Bibliographic Control Librarian, Rider University

Melissa A. Hofmann is the Bibliographic Control Librarian at Rider University’s Moore Library, where she is liaison to the English Department and the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Her other duties include reference, research instruction, and collection development. She has a Master of Library and Information Science from Rutgers University and a Master of Arts in English from The College of New Jersey. Her LIS research interests include next-generation OPACs, faceted browsing, subject analysis, and cloud cataloging. Her goal is to make the university library and its resources user-friendly, relevant, and useful to the needs of researchers and lifelong learners.